News and Prophecy Staff

“Superstorm Sandy” roared through the Caribbean last week taking 68 lives and leaving food shortages in the island nation of Haiti (MSNBC.com and BBC.com, October 31, 2012).  Sandy then plowed into the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S., killing dozens more and causing billions of dollars in damage.

The “Marriage Equality” bill that seeks to redefine marriage to include unions between two members of the same sex, overwhelmingly passed its first Parliamentary reading.  NZ Prime Minister, John Key, one of the bill’s supporters, described the result as exciting and told media sources that it was “a strong endorsement for the equality of rights” (New Zealand News, August 30, 2012).  However, Mr.

The UN warns that “World grain reserves are so dangerously low that severe weather in the United States or other food-exporting countries could trigger a major hunger crisis next year” (The Observer, October 13, 2012).  While a billion people are hungry in the world, many still have plenty of food.

A growing number of nations want to replace the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.  “Every time there is an international economic summit, it seems that some Chinese mandarin reiterates the now familiar complaint that the greenback needs to be replaced as the world’s de facto reserve currency” (Time, July 21, 2009).

NYC schools can now give chemical contraceptives and the “morning after pill” to under-age high school girls (New York Post, September 24, 2012).  Under the guise of keeping young girls from dropping out of school, nurses distribute medication without informing parents, to girls having “unprotected sex.” Ironically, the same schools do not allow pain medication (like Tylenol) to be given out.